Multiple Assessments: moving towards

Integrated AssessmentDr. Caroline Linse

• To become familiar with different definitions and descriptions of assessment.

• To contrast Multiple Assessment with Integrated Assessment.

• To identify different purposes of assessment.

• To describe the types of assessment that are currently taking place.

• To review different suggestions for integrated assessment.

Activities

Introductory Name Activity

Descriptions of Assessment

Sample Activities – Integrated with Assessment

Introductory Activity

• Introductory Name Activity –

• Answer the following questions. Be sure to write complete sentences.

Assessment Pieces

What language was being assessed?

How can this serve as an assessment piece?

Description of Assessment

Assessment is an appraisal.

It is the gathering of information necessary to take action. It can be negative or positive.

What assessments did you conduct today?

Did you decide to drive or take the MRT? What information - assessments did you use to make your decision?

Did you decide to bring an umbrella or leave your umbrella at home?

Write down three to five assessments that you conducted in the last twenty four hours.

Description of Assessment

Turn to the person sitting next to you and describe the assessments that you have done in the last 24 hours.

Description of Assessment

Think about the types of assessments that you conducted.

Were all of the assessments the same or were they different?

For example, did you listen to the weather so you could decide if you were going to take an umbrella?

Did you smell the milk to decide if you were going to use it for your coffee or throw it away?

Assessment is Integrated into Life

We are assessing all of the time. Assessment is integrated into life.

Description of Assessment

How many different forms of assessment did you do?

Were the assessments separate or part of your life?

Assessment is integrated into life.

• Integrated Assessment is merely a way to integrate multiple assessment practices into classroom instruction.

Classic Assessment Distinctions

Formative Assessment

Summative Assessment- GEPT - TOEFL - TOEIC - IELTS - University and College Entrance Exam

Formative Assessment This type of assessment takes place during the different instructional process or cycle.

Formative & Summative Assessment

Summative AssessmentThis type of assessment takes place at the end of the instructional process or cycle.

Formative - Summative Assessment

Think about the type of assessments did you do in the last 24 hours? Formative or summative? Why do you think so?

What is multiple assessment?

Multiple Assessment can refer to - formative assessment - summative assessment.

Multiple Assessment can refer to observations, portfolios, self assessment, peer assessment, games, worksheets, comments from parents, etc.

Educational Assessment like assessment in real life needs to be integrated.

Need for Integrated Assessment

Teachers are challenged with up to 12 classes that they must teach and assess.

Multiple Assessment has the unfortunate implication that it is something multiple to be added to what is already taking place in the classroom.

Integrated assessment should reflect good instruction and be multifaceted in nature.

Multiple Assessment Versus Integrated

Assessment•There are multiple forms of assessment that are already taking place in Taiwanese classrooms.

•The goal is to expand and integrate forms of assessment into regular classroom instruction.

Moving Beyond Testing

Testing versus Learning Consider the way children learn to speak in their home language. How are learners assessed?Are they tested?

Think about the different things children do with language.

Discussion of testing

Multiple Assessment is needed because concerns about formative and summative assessment and the negative ramifications of testing.

Washback Effect

Testing has been known to have very negative washback effects. Testing can cause learners to be disinterested in the learning process.

Testing does not often have a direct relationship to the language that learners find to be meaningful.

Moving Beyond Testing

When children learn their home language they use it to accomplish different things.

Parents, other caregivers and teachers use a variety of techniques, mainly informally to assess how well children are learning listening and speaking skills.

The assessment is not test based.

Parent Feedback as a Form of Assessment

• What type of complaints have you received from parents?

Purposes of Assessment

What do you think are the different aims or purposes of assessment that take place in ELT public school classrooms in Taiwan?

Purposes of Assessment

To determine if the learners find the content to be too easy, too difficult, interesting, boring, etc.

To determine how well students feel about what they are learning and how high they are trying.

To assign grades or scores.

To be a motivational tool for learners.

To gather data regarding learner progress.

To determine if the curricular guidelines are appropriate and being followed.

To serve as a data source for parents.

To serve as a data source for the Ministry of Education.

To serve as a data source for textbook publishers in Taiwan.

Need for Integrated Assessment in Taiwan

It reflects the spirit of recommended ELT practices.

It can promote positive washback

It can be adapted to a wide variety of assessment purposes.

Integrated Assessment

Assessment needs to be integrated into textbooks.

Assessment needs to be integrated into all phases of instruction.

Assessment in Taiwan

• Types of Assessment Taking Place in ELT Classrooms in Taiwan

• Rank them according ease to implement.

Assessment Integrated into

Foreign Language Instruction

The US State of Wisconsin has strived to integrate assessment into instruction.

Look at the video and write down three ways that assessment is integrated into instruction.

World Language Assessment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baIeA8UrkEo

This video from Wisconsin shows how assessment is integrated into teaching and learning.

Assessment

Suggestions – to be integrated with

instruction

Sample Activities

Sample Activities

• TPR Assessment – Yes/No cards –

• TPR Thumbs Up and Down

• Action verbs – Add One on Game- This morning, I woke up… I washed my hair….

• Hot & Cold

• Red Light & Green Light

Please prepare the checklists to be shared with the rest of the group.

Thank you for your attention!